Being Well

"The traditional Eastern answer to the search for mastery has been, "Find an enlightened master, apprentice yourself, and, if you work diligently, you will one day transcend your ego and be enlightened. When you are enlightened you will know what source is. A source is one who enables others to transcend ego. In short, source is the distinguishing quality of a master...

One of the problems that we get into with the issue of paradigms is that each paradigm argues for itself. The Eastern paradigm says that holism, altered states, and higher consciousness are the truth and the way. The Western paradigm says that segmental precision and piecemeal approaches are the truth and the way...

We are well.

Being well is the awareness of the miracle that we are able to be.

We are the ones who come to consciousness, able to be, ill or healthy.

We are the paradigm of paradigms—able to come to any paradigm—to discern whether we are there truthfully portrayed.

It is time to shift to a paradigm which accords us more of our full and entire dignity.

This time—as our species welcomes greater and greater responsibility for its own further evolution—let us not allow ourselves to be defined by the next paradigm, no matter how wondrously and magnificently it portrays us.

For true mastery lies not in things or in paradigms,

but in our ability to cause life to be

serenely, magnificently, completely,

what is."

~ Werner Erhard, Victor Gioscia, and Ken Anbender